The DC Capital Punishment Volleyball Club is hosting the games, sanctioned by the North American Gay Volleyball Association, Nov. 28-29, at the University of Maryland's Reckord Armory Gymnasium, 2103 Reckord Armory, College Park, Md.
''This is a great opportunity for us to bring folks from New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and as far away as San Francisco for a great networking opportunity,'' says tournament director Jack Fleming. ...more
"It was Saturday night and I was ready to go out and party," Johnson remembers. "He said we were going to church in the morning! What??"
Rev. Dwayne Johnson An early night to rest up for Sunday morning services wasn't at all what Johnson was looking for. Then again, maybe it was. Raised in a very conservative household -- both his parents are Church of the Nazarene ministers -- Johnson had a hard time reconciling his sexual orientation with his spirituality. That the Church of the Nazarene considers seiders sexual relations between people of the same gender sinful, Johnson, who identifies as queer, nevertheless became a Church of the Nazarene pastor himself. His trip to D.C. from Seattle was a chance to escape that conflict, at least for a little while. ...more
The Nov. 18 clash came in the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, over the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act of 2009 (HR 2517). The bill seeks to provide all federal employees with the same benefits whether they are married to a person of the opposite sex or are in a long-term intimate relationship with a person of the same sex. It was sponsored by openly gay Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) and had the spoken support of President Obama.
All speakers for the bill were Democrats; all speakers against it were Republicans. ...more
The gay Catholic group Dignity USA is urging the D.C. City Council to reject a demand by the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington that it amend a pending same-sex marriage bill to allow its charitable arm to discriminate against gay employees.
Dignity weighed in on the brewing controversy over the city's pending same-sex marriage bill after Catholic Charities, which is run by the Archdiocese, said it would discontinue operating dozens of city-funded programs that serve as many as 68,000 low-income people if the Council doesn't make certain changes in the bill.
“It's shameful ...
A House committee has scheduled Wednesday for its markup of a bill that would make benefits available to the same-sex partners of federal employees.
The House Oversight & Government Reform Committee markup of the legislation, known as the Domestic Partnership Benefits & Obligations Act, will take place Nov. 18 at 2 p.m. in room 2154 of the House Rayburn Building.
The committee will consider amendments to the legislation before voting on whether to report out the bill to the House floor.
The markup will take place the same day that the House Education & Labor Committee is considering the Employment Non-Di ...
The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington is threatening to stop providing some social services unless lawmakers change a proposal to legalize same-sex marriages.
The city council has refused to change the measure, which is expected to pass next month.
The church says the marriage bill would force the church to offer employee benefits and adoptions to married same-sex couples. But council members say threats shouldn't determine D.C. laws.
Council member Jim Graham says the church hasn't abandoned social services in New Hampshire, Connecticut or Vermont after they began same-sex marriages.
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